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094336
Export dependent: Georgian gangs strengthen Russian presence
/ Slade, Gavin
Slade, Gavin
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2010.
Key Words
Russia
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Georgia
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Export
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Moscow
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Georgian Criminal Groups
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Russian Criminal Groups
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111137
Georgia's war on crime: creating security in a post-revolutionary context
/ Slade, Gavin
Slade, Gavin
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2012.
Summary/Abstract
Since the Rose Revolution of 2003, the Georgian Government has made criminal justice reform a cornerstone of its political agenda. A big part of this was the fight against organised crime. This article looks at the use of anti-mafia policies and police reform to create domestic security in the post-revolutionary period. This article provides an account of collusion between the state and organised crime actors known as thieves-in-law prior to the revolution and levels of victimisation and insecurity amongst ordinary Georgians in this context. This article then details the anti-mafia policy and the criminological situation in Georgia since the Rose Revolution. It argues that Georgia has witnessed a huge crime decline and increases in security. In conclusion, this article suggests that the Georgian Government now 'governs through crime' and that this model might emerge in other countries of the post-Soviet region.
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Security
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Revolution
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Organised Crime
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Georgia
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177898
Limits of authoritarian modernisation: zero tolerance policing in Kazakhstan
/ Slade, Gavin; Trochev, Alexei ; Talgatova, Malika
Slade, Gavin
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We study police inertia and the depth of public mistrust in, and apathy towards, zero tolerance policing (ZTP) in Kazakhstan. Using survey, social media and official data we show how ZTP failed: politicians did not summon any political will for the policy, the police subverted any attempted reforms, while citizens ignored them. The failure of ZTP delineates the limits of authoritarian modernisation. We argue that modernisers require assistance from citizens in reforming police yet cannot mobilise such assistance due to public distrust which itself is created by authoritarian modernisers’ preference for police loyalty over police good behaviour. The consequence is a decoupling of the rhetoric from the reality of police reform.
Key Words
Kazakhstan
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Modernisation
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Authoritarian
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Zero Tolerance Policing
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155304
Popular punitiveness? punishment and attitudes to law in post-soviet Georgia
/ Slade, Gavin; Kupatadze, Alexander
Kupatadze, Alexander
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Georgia is the only country in the post-Soviet region where incarceration rates significantly grew in the 2000s. Then in 2013, the prison population was halved through a mass amnesty. Did this punitiveness and its sudden relaxation after 2012 impact attitudes to the law? We find that these attitudes remained negative regardless of levels of punitiveness. Furthermore, the outcomes of sentencing may be less important than procedures leading to sentencing. Procedural justice during both punitiveness and liberalisation was not assured. This may explain the persistence of negative attitudes to law. The Georgian case shows that politically-driven punitive turns or mass amnesties are unlikely to solve the problem of legal nihilism in the region.
Key Words
Popular Punitiveness
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Punishment and Attitudes
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Law in Post-Soviet Georgia
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078973
Threat of the thief: who has normative influence in Georgian society
/ Slade, Gavin
Slade, Gavin
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Publication
2007.
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This piece gives an account of the Georgian government's recent attempts to crackdown on the institution of thieves-in-law [vory-v-zakone] within Georgian society. The events surrounding the problematisation of the thieves-in-law are examined and different answers are offered to the underlying question of the article: what threat does this subversive group pose to the government? It is argued that the vory do not represent a potential criminal revolution but are victims of a resurgent state producing a politics of law that seeks to stamp out subverting influences within society. The thieves' world represents an alternative moral order which is attractive in a country which suffers from acute alienated statehood. Thus the fight against the vory should be understood as a battle to win back the hearts of the Georgian people for the state and for the law.
Key Words
Georgia
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Securitization
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Thieves-in-Law
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Prison Riots
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Politics of Law
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